That is not insightful. Nowhere is one required to provide a solution! That is false reasoning. Imagine if science worked that way-- you can't disprove my theory until you give me a replacement theory! If your replacement sucks, then I'll just ignore all the flaws you make about my theory!
Fanatics are not always bad. Extremes are not always bad. Activist is not a bad word.
The Lorax was a simple story with a moral about conservation which maybe should have been more abstract so it wasn't too obvious as to the implications in the real world. It also was a blasphemy against the consumerist religion in the USA; although, the main problem is it upset industries.
Like so many childhood morals, they directly conflict with the adult world where nobody applies those morals but likes to state them. My favorite is "do not judge a book by its cover" which shows up in many ways all the time for all audiences but is ignored by adults; plus its seems to be worse as people get older. Today's increased obsession with fashion and appearance not only make this worse but now has a huge industry setup to defend an further promote it. A modern children's book on par with the Lorax dealing with image and consumerism would have an industry attacking it like Lorax had with the logging industry.
Wish I has points. These horrible insulting grass remakes harm society as lazy or frankly stupid parents substitute them for the original; unable to care or tell the difference, robbing some of the next generation from the possibility of some understanding and surpassing their parents.
It seems all that one needs is name recognition and a few references to make many people feel the new product is a just a new version of the original, which had merit enough on its own to last; but after all the bad remakes will the originals survive a mountain of crap covering them up?
I'd like to see somebody do this process to something more sacred to make a point; like Jesus for example... I wonder what talking animal side kick he would get? What would the horrible music numbers be (besides just picking from that studio's current teen sensation, or the upcoming one.)
Don't get blinded by your emotions and especially the narrow perspective of your culture. Punishment is not for everything but we use it our own tool; like a hammer for nails, screws, glue, painting, etc.
Prevention is the whole GOAL, punishment is just 1 means to achieve that and it doesn't work a lot of the time. Just doing more of the same makes me think of Albert Einstein's view on insanity.
One of the most common things I see alcohol do to people is greatly lower their judgment, inflate their confidence, and lower inhibitions: "I've not had that much" (which is hard to tell for border-line amounts - "its not impacting my judgement") "I will do fine and therefore I will not get caught." "I've done it before and never hit anybody" (prior LUCK bolstering confidence) "There is almost nobody out this late at night" "Fuck the law; stupid liberals" etc.
Rarely does somebody think about harsh punishment; its difficult enough to get people to just think correctly about the danger or risk of being caught. Punishment is the last thing being thought about if it even gets that far.
Punishment for idiocy is... idiotic. Mentally retarded people can't drive; we don't let them drive then punish them severely when they crash. Solution there is we simply DO NOT LET THEM DRIVE, something I like to call "prevention by regulation."
Requiring a meter in every car would settle the question of "Did I drink too much" but not the overly confident people. Requiring a meter to START a car (not in TFA) would prevent nearly all situations while annoying everybody - it would just speak to your culture if people would be willing to "suffer" with such a solution. I find it ironic that we implement a bigger police state over a few people dying from a terrorist attack but we will not implement reasonable inconveniences to prevent MORE people from dying -- and these deaths happen EVERY YEAR!
Upside is somebody would research biometrics and maybe replace your keys. Other solutions, electronic keys (many have them now) where a bar would disable all keys going in the building; they'd have to enable them as you left and the risk would be partially theirs. New methods of testing would be devised. Robot cars would have an early market niche...
As far as the punishment side, removing driving privilege for LONG periods with a class AND having an affordable alternative transportation because I know people who drove years illegally, and when caught it was a fine and extension which they just ignored - having no alternative to get to their jobs. This resulted in a survival attitude and disrespect for the law; causing more DWI which they were never caught for because they got away with illegally driving. I think their driving skills were better because of the fear of getting caught. Jail wouldn't have done any good long term but made everything worse for everybody. Sending to AA would have done less harm in the end. A free bus service (the retarded have it) or free bus pass would help; this would be cheaper than many punishments employed today; however, ignorant people would feel it was rewarding a crime because we must always have punishments... that never end, can't let anybody be reformed without driving them back into hell... because that makes you feel so much better than them.
I frankly don't care if a DWI killed somebody, its just bad luck and if there is no motive for murder then it was purely an accident completely separate from the DWI. Sure there is a risk of death but they were drunk... I'm way more upset at a CEO who knows the risks and lets a few people die anyway for increased profits; they rarely get punished even when its proven they were aware of the risk. Those are sober decisions involving multiple people. Not a drunk thinking they'll not hit a tree (if they even think about hitting a person, which of course they wouldn't do...)
FYI, I never drink; much of the time they'll argue they could drive. I knew an alcoholic.
Traditional Terrorists are so few and their impact so small that they do not bother many of us because we do not go into a panic over the low risk.
While lawyers can shoot a few rounds over your head without any trouble and are a REAL threat not to your life but to everything else including your quality of life. They use the terror they cause and if that does not work they can cost you a lot of money playing games with your "hired guns" who also have the same incentive - to keep working by the hour.
Legal threats or implied threats have no cost; it probably wasn't a crime for a gunslinger to shoot near somebody either! They should just put a severed horse's head on the letterhead of their notices.
DOW didn't buy on a whim, many people spent a lot of time in the process of buying the corp. Simply selling a corporation does not allow it to escape justice; despite them usually escaping justice anyway. DOW bought Union Carbide knowing the issues and expecting to never have to factor that cost other than maybe a few PR statements and lawyers considered minor baggage in the acquisition.
It has everything to do with DOW; because Union Carbide still exists within a bigger corporation - simply because the name changed and some people shuffled around does not make them disappear, it means the new name becomes the one we rail against.
I hope everybody destroys each other utterly and consumers suffer BIG TIME. Maybe then the masses will realize how stupid the patent system has become and how it has not been serving it's purpose for existing. Most the patents in that space should not exist; and many of apples should exist as copyright (which is easy enough to work around.) Apple should have put more time into variations on touch screens if they didn't want to be at risk of copy cats; that patent was one of the few legit ones. Then the others would have inferior touch screens... Although, I don't think patents should be allowed to monopolize to that degree, they should have to license to anybody for a high fee with some sort of oversight.
We do not need BP preventing alternative energy progress because they own some key patent. Don't think they wouldn't... if they didn't just keep it secret until they thought somebody else might file it.
We haven't evolved that far beyond our cousins. Primate behavior has plenty of insight into humans. People just don't like to hear that they are not thinking and act thoughtlessly as much as they do; after all, they've spent a lifetime rationalizing thoughtless irrational behaviors. It comes as no surprise to me that religious types have a harder time dealing with this whole area (from evolution to the nature of irrational behavior, it all involves a similar fiction writing process for explaining reality as religion does.)
FYI, some "apps" are just customized web browsers restricted to a custom web site and only are presented to look like a native app. They still waste considerable resources; simply putting a bookmark to an "optimized" website would be better.
Did you just claim making the USA pay for something under the guise of national security would LIMIT their spending?? budget? what budget?
Nearly every politician does not want to be blamed for a mess where they didn't spend 150% supporting whatever was found to have possibly prevented it after the fact. Hell, mayors get ousted for not having EXTRA snow blows for freak blizzards or in trouble for wasting money on unused expenses... Guess which one has the lower political cost? (spending)
The whole thing is stupid but if they did create that category they need to define it clearly. Just about anything taking place in the future is called sci-fi today; along with anything involving "the unknown."
There need not be a hint of science; possibly not even some educated expert character (that excludes victims...) Its more like fantasy, mythology, or action but somehow a lot of things get labeled "sci-fi".
Star Wars is mythology set in the future, it is not science fiction. I'm sure somebody will disagree with that because it has space ships and is in the future. It could have taken place in ancient times; it just couldn't be pulled off by an old George Lucas (see the Mr. Plinkett review of ep1.)
Well, I'm personally quite conservative overall; but outside that I'm not even within the 1 dimensional false dilemma that is American politics (based upon a French seating arrangement.) See politicalcompass.org.
I never spent much time with NPR; but somehow I doubt they ever went off the deep end especially during the Bush years. I think they are attacked and labeled as far left and the little I've heard was more like lip service or intellectual masturbation for people identifying with the "left" who make up a large portion of the donor base.
The trend existed before Fox, but Fox accelerated it here while Murdock was providing examples for corp media long before Fox News in the USA; so more accurately, Murdock was a big factor in our decline. It was more an issue of PROFIT motivating others to mimic. The death of the Fairness Doctrine seemed like a big turning point to me; along with the Civil War ending free press subsides which used to amount to 3% of GDP producing multiple independent BBC like news sources (but I doubt most were on par with the BBC, they were likely better than anything here today.) "Patriotic" press for profit and the rise of the corporation as the dominant institution would be the biggest underlying problems in my opinion; with a big turning point being the Nixon years. I keep learning of new things Nixon did to screw us over; worst. president. ever. (and people will never know.)
I'd like to mention WWF wrestling or whatever their new letters are today. Great ratings for stupid programming and fake brawling. Idiocracy pointed out the trend as the TV news has been slowly morphing into a TV wrestling show. I'm just waiting for the day Fox News has weight lifters as anchors, they have the bimbos.
Over the last century I would credit the biggest influence being the rise of applied psychology from cigarettes & eggs with bacon to Nazis to the virtue of selfishness and today with the delusional American republicans living in Rove's constructed reality (which has taken on a life of its own; something it would seem he was not aware would happen.)
The right wingnuts are loaded with christian contradictions; more than the religion itself has. It is not less a leap than a lot of other positions they take. They don't realize contradictions are not good; that is, if they can even identify them in the 1st place. Remember, we've had an increase in people who can't tell fact from fiction in the last 10+ years (about as long as fox news.) Probably longer but since that test was college bound students and the Rush dittoheads were not measured before Fox "News" accelerated the dumbing down of the nation.
This was a troll to get people upset. CUPS is pretty good but it is getting loaded with bloat and I'm glad somebody is moving them forward; I remember when some people were bitching about Firefox vs Mozilla; although, at that point mozilla was so much of a mess most people were excited to get Firefox.
I for one REALLY HATE drivers. I think they should have another memory space for the vile things like the mainframes did (still do?) Sure we lose some speed for it but we should be able to accelerate that separation somehow; its not any worse than the losses we got as we added more and more other features over the years.
Scanners and Printers really suck even with USB they just wrap some crap and FORCE you to buy new ones in a few years. Hell, epson was purposely disabling their inkjets in the firmware... I suppose because they knew the driver would be to easily fixed.
The zombies in government are paid for their performance by billionaires and the "market" is doing so well at privatizing our representative democracy why not have them do similar things with our schools, teachers, and students.
Those stickers, stars, points, and grades are only metaphors today's kids don't know what a metaphor is, they need real-world money to make them move. Intellectual curiosity and interest are not necessary if not dangerous to the social Darwinist society we value so highly.
As for helping others or society, that is such a primitive concept only perpetuated by some extremist religious people; those 2000 year old beliefs are the dreaded socialistic plague! People must SHOP and make as much money as they can so they can CONSUME and that is the only modern civilized way to to help others. People who do not learn this are fools and unfit to continue just as a weak animal quickly becomes prey; this is nature and we shouldn't oppose it just because of some ancient socialist teachings.
Am I the only one seeing the irony that a billionaire is promoting this with charity for the weak? He has lost his way! The school should be allowed to fail.;-)
All democracies fall into despotism it is the nature of the system; like Ben Franklin said.
Power concentration is a problem for any society; class warfare never ended and it is part of that same human problem. I would argue that a functioning government is still unable to fend off external forces with sufficient power. Haiti was a mess but they did have their democratic leader in office until the USA performed a coup; twice, because they (I'm in the USA but its not my government) have too much power over others. Mega corporations not only use armies of lawyers to hack and corrupt public systems but they can leverage their other assets such as other corrupted nations.
You are lucky, Germany is in far better shape and the people are probably smarter and wiser than Americans (and I'm an American saying this.) My research into the world of applied psychology leads me to believe someday that science will provide a means by which to obtain a working control over the majority; in the USA with our "free press" etc about 1/3 can be constantly controlled already.
We have THREE display connection standards that basically stuck us to a 2560 x 1600 max resolution and the big differences between them is DRM hardware that adds to their costs and totally different cables and a market of adapters and cables.
My "old" DVI drives my 30" at the max resolution. HDMI was not progress, the DRM stuff is a backwards step. Then we have Display Port which didn't give us much but more BS the only redeeming thing seems to be the ThunderBolt external PCI built onto it.
I'd like 2560x2560 @100ppi with minimal borders please. These wide things suck to put next to each other, its so bad that one thinks of stacking vertical than going side by side. Subpixel anti-aliasing doesn't work rotated 90 degrees or I'd start lining up 30" displays.
Apple QuickTake 100 was the first digital camera; consumer obviously, it is all that matters today - we don't know or care about the inventor anymore just the corp who releases it to the masses first.
I knew somebody with an Apple QuickTake 100 and I used it. Expensive junk; but it was all one could get and the others shortly afterwards were no better. A yellow pixel noise was in every photo for years... I don't remember when the digital cameras finally fixed that problem.
I wish I had mod points! I'm so sick of these religious like responses from scientists; it's as if they made abortions free and all the jesus freaks said we don't value life anymore. (The lack of respect for science IS a problem in the USA; part of the anti-intellectualism movement but being anti-Mars is not really part of it.)
We have HUGE problems here on earth that are not being solved. Hell, one reason Bush pushed the Mars program was to retask NASA away from planetary science; a clever move for an idiot... (it seems more like Rove's signature to me.)
I'm a step further away in that I see no value in going to Mars in even 100 years. Robots are superior today and in 20 years they will be as far ahead as they are now from 1992. When you can cheaply jump start the core of Mars or build a functioning society in insulated caves...then start colonizing. I meet actual adults who think we'll jump ship after wreaking the earth and move to Mars! So I ask them, about living in a space ship with robot servants waiting for the Earth to heal itself like the film WALL-E, they think that is too unrealistic!
This budget will not pass just like the others did not pass. The GOP house will not pass anything but last second extensions after Obama licks their boots. What is sad is that he is only doing 1% for show.
Screw mars. We don't have the money and if we did I'd be 150% against it! We should be working on better robotics and planetary science both which will do more faster and cheaper than pushing for a man on mars in our lifetime. Unless you build a permanent base, mars is not worth going to and even then the robots are better than humans now; in 20 years they'll be more ahead of humans. Many ignorant people think we'll colonize Mars; but that is not worth doing without a lot of progress in multiple areas-- remember on Mars in winter, the air freezes. We don't stay in Antarctica all year around yet.
It hasn't been a functioning democracy for years. For Social issues, let them eat cake but for anything economic the system has been hijacked.
No matter the system you devise the problem is that of concentration of power; government systems try to divide and limit powers to avoid too much concentration of power which undermines equality and democracy. Today's problem is the same as it always has been, too much power given to a minority but this time it is large external powers who can subvert governments worldwide. Government does not have the level of "soft" power or the defenses to match the multinationals. Yes, obviously, I'm advocating an extension of the same separation of powers to that of the private world for the exact same reasons. The power crazed control freaks go for government but the wiser ones realize they have far less restraint on the outside, that is, when your weapon of choice is "soft" power.
Our public servants are simply serving their masters, which are NOT us. It just has gone far enough that it is more apparent to more of the public but not enough for anything to change. It'll have to get worse; more likely, something that can get the masses active enough to do something besides watch TV.
Mathematicians make a decent living and they lack "protection" I don't see why software can not be unprotected just like their math. They still need computer people to engineer and support solutions.
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That is not insightful. Nowhere is one required to provide a solution! That is false reasoning.
Imagine if science worked that way-- you can't disprove my theory until you give me a replacement theory! If your replacement sucks, then I'll just ignore all the flaws you make about my theory!
Fanatics are not always bad. Extremes are not always bad. Activist is not a bad word.
The Lorax was a simple story with a moral about conservation which maybe should have been more abstract so it wasn't too obvious as to the implications in the real world. It also was a blasphemy against the consumerist religion in the USA; although, the main problem is it upset industries.
Like so many childhood morals, they directly conflict with the adult world where nobody applies those morals but likes to state them. My favorite is "do not judge a book by its cover" which shows up in many ways all the time for all audiences but is ignored by adults; plus its seems to be worse as people get older. Today's increased obsession with fashion and appearance not only make this worse but now has a huge industry setup to defend an further promote it. A modern children's book on par with the Lorax dealing with image and consumerism would have an industry attacking it like Lorax had with the logging industry.
Wish I has points.
These horrible insulting grass remakes harm society as lazy or frankly stupid parents substitute them for the original; unable to care or tell the difference, robbing some of the next generation from the possibility of some understanding and surpassing their parents.
It seems all that one needs is name recognition and a few references to make many people feel the new product is a just a new version of the original, which had merit enough on its own to last; but after all the bad remakes will the originals survive a mountain of crap covering them up?
I'd like to see somebody do this process to something more sacred to make a point; like Jesus for example... I wonder what talking animal side kick he would get? What would the horrible music numbers be (besides just picking from that studio's current teen sensation, or the upcoming one.)
Don't get blinded by your emotions and especially the narrow perspective of your culture. Punishment is not for everything but we use it our own tool; like a hammer for nails, screws, glue, painting, etc.
Prevention is the whole GOAL, punishment is just 1 means to achieve that and it doesn't work a lot of the time. Just doing more of the same makes me think of Albert Einstein's view on insanity.
One of the most common things I see alcohol do to people is greatly lower their judgment, inflate their confidence, and lower inhibitions:
"I've not had that much" (which is hard to tell for border-line amounts - "its not impacting my judgement")
"I will do fine and therefore I will not get caught."
"I've done it before and never hit anybody" (prior LUCK bolstering confidence)
"There is almost nobody out this late at night"
"Fuck the law; stupid liberals"
etc.
Rarely does somebody think about harsh punishment; its difficult enough to get people to just think correctly about the danger or risk of being caught. Punishment is the last thing being thought about if it even gets that far.
Punishment for idiocy is... idiotic. Mentally retarded people can't drive; we don't let them drive then punish them severely when they crash. Solution there is we simply DO NOT LET THEM DRIVE, something I like to call "prevention by regulation."
Requiring a meter in every car would settle the question of "Did I drink too much" but not the overly confident people. Requiring a meter to START a car (not in TFA) would prevent nearly all situations while annoying everybody - it would just speak to your culture if people would be willing to "suffer" with such a solution. I find it ironic that we implement a bigger police state over a few people dying from a terrorist attack but we will not implement reasonable inconveniences to prevent MORE people from dying -- and these deaths happen EVERY YEAR!
Upside is somebody would research biometrics and maybe replace your keys. Other solutions, electronic keys (many have them now) where a bar would disable all keys going in the building; they'd have to enable them as you left and the risk would be partially theirs. New methods of testing would be devised. Robot cars would have an early market niche...
As far as the punishment side, removing driving privilege for LONG periods with a class AND having an affordable alternative transportation because I know people who drove years illegally, and when caught it was a fine and extension which they just ignored - having no alternative to get to their jobs. This resulted in a survival attitude and disrespect for the law; causing more DWI which they were never caught for because they got away with illegally driving. I think their driving skills were better because of the fear of getting caught. Jail wouldn't have done any good long term but made everything worse for everybody. Sending to AA would have done less harm in the end. A free bus service (the retarded have it) or free bus pass would help; this would be cheaper than many punishments employed today; however, ignorant people would feel it was rewarding a crime because we must always have punishments... that never end, can't let anybody be reformed without driving them back into hell... because that makes you feel so much better than them.
I frankly don't care if a DWI killed somebody, its just bad luck and if there is no motive for murder then it was purely an accident completely separate from the DWI. Sure there is a risk of death but they were drunk... I'm way more upset at a CEO who knows the risks and lets a few people die anyway for increased profits; they rarely get punished even when its proven they were aware of the risk. Those are sober decisions involving multiple people. Not a drunk thinking they'll not hit a tree (if they even think about hitting a person, which of course they wouldn't do...)
FYI, I never drink; much of the time they'll argue they could drive. I knew an alcoholic.
What with seat belt makers not making enough money from the USA's regulations, so they need to expand their racket to every single motorist?
Traditional Terrorists are so few and their impact so small that they do not bother many of us because we do not go into a panic over the low risk.
While lawyers can shoot a few rounds over your head without any trouble and are a REAL threat not to your life but to everything else including your quality of life. They use the terror they cause and if that does not work they can cost you a lot of money playing games with your "hired guns" who also have the same incentive - to keep working by the hour.
Legal threats or implied threats have no cost; it probably wasn't a crime for a gunslinger to shoot near somebody either! They should just put a severed horse's head on the letterhead of their notices.
DOW didn't buy on a whim, many people spent a lot of time in the process of buying the corp. Simply selling a corporation does not allow it to escape justice; despite them usually escaping justice anyway. DOW bought Union Carbide knowing the issues and expecting to never have to factor that cost other than maybe a few PR statements and lawyers considered minor baggage in the acquisition.
It has everything to do with DOW; because Union Carbide still exists within a bigger corporation - simply because the name changed and some people shuffled around does not make them disappear, it means the new name becomes the one we rail against.
The git who decided to do this should get them.
I hope everybody destroys each other utterly and consumers suffer BIG TIME. Maybe then the masses will realize how stupid the patent system has become and how it has not been serving it's purpose for existing. Most the patents in that space should not exist; and many of apples should exist as copyright (which is easy enough to work around.) Apple should have put more time into variations on touch screens if they didn't want to be at risk of copy cats; that patent was one of the few legit ones. Then the others would have inferior touch screens... Although, I don't think patents should be allowed to monopolize to that degree, they should have to license to anybody for a high fee with some sort of oversight.
We do not need BP preventing alternative energy progress because they own some key patent. Don't think they wouldn't... if they didn't just keep it secret until they thought somebody else might file it.
We haven't evolved that far beyond our cousins. Primate behavior has plenty of insight into humans. People just don't like to hear that they are not thinking and act thoughtlessly as much as they do; after all, they've spent a lifetime rationalizing thoughtless irrational behaviors. It comes as no surprise to me that religious types have a harder time dealing with this whole area (from evolution to the nature of irrational behavior, it all involves a similar fiction writing process for explaining reality as religion does.)
FYI, some "apps" are just customized web browsers restricted to a custom web site and only are presented to look like a native app. They still waste considerable resources; simply putting a bookmark to an "optimized" website would be better.
Did you just claim making the USA pay for something under the guise of national security would LIMIT their spending?? budget? what budget?
Nearly every politician does not want to be blamed for a mess where they didn't spend 150% supporting whatever was found to have possibly prevented it after the fact. Hell, mayors get ousted for not having EXTRA snow blows for freak blizzards or in trouble for wasting money on unused expenses... Guess which one has the lower political cost? (spending)
The whole thing is stupid but if they did create that category they need to define it clearly. Just about anything taking place in the future is called sci-fi today; along with anything involving "the unknown."
There need not be a hint of science; possibly not even some educated expert character (that excludes victims...) Its more like fantasy, mythology, or action but somehow a lot of things get labeled "sci-fi".
Star Wars is mythology set in the future, it is not science fiction. I'm sure somebody will disagree with that because it has space ships and is in the future. It could have taken place in ancient times; it just couldn't be pulled off by an old George Lucas (see the Mr. Plinkett review of ep1.)
CANADA is now the biggest OIL supplier to the USA. They shouldn't be so easily pushed around.
Well, I'm personally quite conservative overall; but outside that I'm not even within the 1 dimensional false dilemma that is American politics (based upon a French seating arrangement.) See politicalcompass.org.
I never spent much time with NPR; but somehow I doubt they ever went off the deep end especially during the Bush years. I think they are attacked and labeled as far left and the little I've heard was more like lip service or intellectual masturbation for people identifying with the "left" who make up a large portion of the donor base.
The trend existed before Fox, but Fox accelerated it here while Murdock was providing examples for corp media long before Fox News in the USA; so more accurately, Murdock was a big factor in our decline. It was more an issue of PROFIT motivating others to mimic. The death of the Fairness Doctrine seemed like a big turning point to me; along with the Civil War ending free press subsides which used to amount to 3% of GDP producing multiple independent BBC like news sources (but I doubt most were on par with the BBC, they were likely better than anything here today.) "Patriotic" press for profit and the rise of the corporation as the dominant institution would be the biggest underlying problems in my opinion; with a big turning point being the Nixon years. I keep learning of new things Nixon did to screw us over; worst. president. ever. (and people will never know.)
I'd like to mention WWF wrestling or whatever their new letters are today. Great ratings for stupid programming and fake brawling. Idiocracy pointed out the trend as the TV news has been slowly morphing into a TV wrestling show. I'm just waiting for the day Fox News has weight lifters as anchors, they have the bimbos.
Over the last century I would credit the biggest influence being the rise of applied psychology from cigarettes & eggs with bacon to Nazis to the virtue of selfishness and today with the delusional American republicans living in Rove's constructed reality (which has taken on a life of its own; something it would seem he was not aware would happen.)
The right wingnuts are loaded with christian contradictions; more than the religion itself has. It is not less a leap than a lot of other positions they take. They don't realize contradictions are not good; that is, if they can even identify them in the 1st place. Remember, we've had an increase in people who can't tell fact from fiction in the last 10+ years (about as long as fox news.) Probably longer but since that test was college bound students and the Rush dittoheads were not measured before Fox "News" accelerated the dumbing down of the nation.
This was a troll to get people upset. CUPS is pretty good but it is getting loaded with bloat and I'm glad somebody is moving them forward; I remember when some people were bitching about Firefox vs Mozilla; although, at that point mozilla was so much of a mess most people were excited to get Firefox.
I for one REALLY HATE drivers. I think they should have another memory space for the vile things like the mainframes did (still do?) Sure we lose some speed for it but we should be able to accelerate that separation somehow; its not any worse than the losses we got as we added more and more other features over the years.
Scanners and Printers really suck even with USB they just wrap some crap and FORCE you to buy new ones in a few years. Hell, epson was purposely disabling their inkjets in the firmware... I suppose because they knew the driver would be to easily fixed.
The zombies in government are paid for their performance by billionaires and the "market" is doing so well at privatizing our representative democracy why not have them do similar things with our schools, teachers, and students.
Those stickers, stars, points, and grades are only metaphors today's kids don't know what a metaphor is, they need real-world money to make them move. Intellectual curiosity and interest are not necessary if not dangerous to the social Darwinist society we value so highly.
As for helping others or society, that is such a primitive concept only perpetuated by some extremist religious people; those 2000 year old beliefs are the dreaded socialistic plague! People must SHOP and make as much money as they can so they can CONSUME and that is the only modern civilized way to to help others. People who do not learn this are fools and unfit to continue just as a weak animal quickly becomes prey; this is nature and we shouldn't oppose it just because of some ancient socialist teachings.
Am I the only one seeing the irony that a billionaire is promoting this with charity for the weak? He has lost his way! The school should be allowed to fail. ;-)
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All democracies fall into despotism it is the nature of the system; like Ben Franklin said.
Power concentration is a problem for any society; class warfare never ended and it is part of that same human problem. I would argue that a functioning government is still unable to fend off external forces with sufficient power. Haiti was a mess but they did have their democratic leader in office until the USA performed a coup; twice, because they (I'm in the USA but its not my government) have too much power over others. Mega corporations not only use armies of lawyers to hack and corrupt public systems but they can leverage their other assets such as other corrupted nations.
You are lucky, Germany is in far better shape and the people are probably smarter and wiser than Americans (and I'm an American saying this.) My research into the world of applied psychology leads me to believe someday that science will provide a means by which to obtain a working control over the majority; in the USA with our "free press" etc about 1/3 can be constantly controlled already.
We have THREE display connection standards that basically stuck us to a 2560 x 1600 max resolution and the big differences between them is DRM hardware that adds to their costs and totally different cables and a market of adapters and cables.
My "old" DVI drives my 30" at the max resolution. HDMI was not progress, the DRM stuff is a backwards step. Then we have Display Port which didn't give us much but more BS the only redeeming thing seems to be the ThunderBolt external PCI built onto it.
I'd like 2560x2560 @100ppi with minimal borders please. These wide things suck to put next to each other, its so bad that one thinks of stacking vertical than going side by side. Subpixel anti-aliasing doesn't work rotated 90 degrees or I'd start lining up 30" displays.
Apple QuickTake 100 was the first digital camera; consumer obviously, it is all that matters today - we don't know or care about the inventor anymore just the corp who releases it to the masses first.
I knew somebody with an Apple QuickTake 100 and I used it. Expensive junk; but it was all one could get and the others shortly afterwards were no better. A yellow pixel noise was in every photo for years... I don't remember when the digital cameras finally fixed that problem.
I wish I had mod points!
I'm so sick of these religious like responses from scientists; it's as if they made abortions free and all the jesus freaks said we don't value life anymore. (The lack of respect for science IS a problem in the USA; part of the anti-intellectualism movement but being anti-Mars is not really part of it.)
We have HUGE problems here on earth that are not being solved. Hell, one reason Bush pushed the Mars program was to retask NASA away from planetary science; a clever move for an idiot... (it seems more like Rove's signature to me.)
I'm a step further away in that I see no value in going to Mars in even 100 years. Robots are superior today and in 20 years they will be as far ahead as they are now from 1992. When you can cheaply jump start the core of Mars or build a functioning society in insulated caves...then start colonizing. I meet actual adults who think we'll jump ship after wreaking the earth and move to Mars! So I ask them, about living in a space ship with robot servants waiting for the Earth to heal itself like the film WALL-E, they think that is too unrealistic!
Spot on!
This budget will not pass just like the others did not pass. The GOP house will not pass anything but last second extensions after Obama licks their boots. What is sad is that he is only doing 1% for show.
Screw mars. We don't have the money and if we did I'd be 150% against it! We should be working on better robotics and planetary science both which will do more faster and cheaper than pushing for a man on mars in our lifetime. Unless you build a permanent base, mars is not worth going to and even then the robots are better than humans now; in 20 years they'll be more ahead of humans. Many ignorant people think we'll colonize Mars; but that is not worth doing without a lot of progress in multiple areas-- remember on Mars in winter, the air freezes. We don't stay in Antarctica all year around yet.
It hasn't been a functioning democracy for years. For Social issues, let them eat cake but for anything economic the system has been hijacked.
No matter the system you devise the problem is that of concentration of power; government systems try to divide and limit powers to avoid too much concentration of power which undermines equality and democracy. Today's problem is the same as it always has been, too much power given to a minority but this time it is large external powers who can subvert governments worldwide. Government does not have the level of "soft" power or the defenses to match the multinationals. Yes, obviously, I'm advocating an extension of the same separation of powers to that of the private world for the exact same reasons. The power crazed control freaks go for government but the wiser ones realize they have far less restraint on the outside, that is, when your weapon of choice is "soft" power.
Our public servants are simply serving their masters, which are NOT us. It just has gone far enough that it is more apparent to more of the public but not enough for anything to change. It'll have to get worse; more likely, something that can get the masses active enough to do something besides watch TV.
Mathematicians make a decent living and they lack "protection" I don't see why software can not be unprotected just like their math. They still need computer people to engineer and support solutions.